Works

The First Folio was publihed by Heminge e Condell in 1623 containing almost all the plays Shakespeare wrote. Heminge e Condell were actors and collect every possible material. Pirate copies actors’ scripts, prompt books etc From 18h century onward scholars compare different editions Folio, Quarto. Shakespeare’s plays are dated both through external and internal references .

The problem with any timeline of Shakespeare's works is that most dates are subject to interpretation. While it is easy to say that The Comedy of Errors is an early work and The Tempest is quite later, exact dates are not - and may not ever be -proved